november 2010

NOVEMBER 2010
CONTACT
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Illustration by
Candice Cumming.
Contact: candice@
candycan.co.uk/
www.inksquatch.
co.uk
NEWS & INFORMATION
ORCHESTRA CUBE
ART IN THE BAR IN NOVEMBER
Art exhibition by Rose Robbins, Ruta Lasyte, and Poppy
Panter Whitlock.
We are an improvisational group based at the Cube.
Musicians of all standards and backgrounds are warmly
welcomed.
FFI: www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
And in the ladies’ toilets…
Toilet Philosophies - an installation by samfrancisco
WE ARE A MEMBERSHIP CINEMA WITH A
LICENSED BAR
THE HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT
The Haiti Kids Kino Project is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide an opening for escape, community,
emotion and social occasion to a people and a place devastated by natural disaster. Haitian children are experiencing
damage and despair, and further anxiety can grow through
inaction, loneliness, isolation and boredom. Sharing the
experience of making and watching films, while offering a
temporary respite, the Haiti Kids Kino Project will contribute
to quality of life through creating, sharing, reflecting, forging
friendships and connections.
Please support the project generously – there are regular
fundraisers and lots of other ways to help.
Visit: www.cubecinema.com/haiti
NANOPLEX
You need to become a member for £1 the first time you
visit. Bring your card every time you come.
TICKET TOUT SUNDAY
Please note that Ticket Tout Tuesday has moved to Sunday.
Films marked tts are only £2!
PRIVATE HIRE
A cinema with a license for film, music,
talks, bar events and more. Always open to ideas. Email
[email protected] for prices and terms. Music
hire queries to [email protected]
ASYLUM
The Cube offers UK asylum seekers and refugees free entry
to all film screenings.
Nanoplex is the version of the Cube that accommodates
active learning, makes way for young people’s minds and
encourages creativity. Adults get in free if accompanying a
child.
ACCESS
BABYCINEMA
ADVANCE TICKET SALES
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/ carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the
company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the
weekly film programme so you don’t lose out on the latest
blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand
to help. These screenings are only £2 (free for babies!)
The Cube welcomes everyone but the nature of the building makes access for some people difficult. If in doubt, call
us and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Advance tickets for gigs and special events can be purchased from the following outlets:
THE BRISTOL TICKET SHOP: 0117 929 9008
THE HERE SHOP: 0117 942 2222
PRIME CUTS: 0117 9830007
Tickets for films are only available from the box office
fifteen minutes prior to the start of the programme.
BRISTOL INDYMEDIA: WIKILEAKS & RETHINK AFGHANISTAN Mon 1st/ 8pm/ £3/£4 but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds The Afghan war grinds on and on with no end in sight. A brutal guerrilla conflict set against the backdrop of regional
power-plays and endemic corruption, the war has become a bitter pill in contrast to the original optimism that the fall of the
Taliban was trumpeted with. Then in July this year the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks publishes thousands of pages of classified material that showed that the brutality, civilian death toll and confusion of the conflict was far, far worse than NATO
had been willing to admit. Bristol Indymedia is please to have Dr Lee Salter (UWE) introducing the powerful documentary ‘Rethink Afghanistan’. Dr
Salter’s talk will look at WikiLeaks and what this means for journalism, propaganda and the future of the war. THE RUNAWAYS
Tues 2nd and Wed 3rd 8pm/ Wed 3rd
11am (babycinema) / £4/£3/£2 (babycinema/tts) tts) Floria Sigismondi/ USA/ 2010/ 109 mins/ Cert: 15 Stylishly-directed new biopic of influential seventies teenage rockers The Runaways, who formed in LA in 1975 and after
enlisting legendary music business svengali Kim Fowley, became one of the first all-girl bands to find genuine success. The film focuses on the relationship between Joan Jett and Cherie Currie (played respectively
by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning), with Michael Shannon in fine form as the
irredeemable rock rogue Fowley, and features a wildfire soundtrack of seventies rock. Fusing their love for the bubblegum stomp of glam rock with the aggression of the emerging
punk scene, The Runaways ride the turbulent rush of fame. It’s not long though before they
discover that typically, the taste of success is often bittersweet. Were they kicking in the doors of the largely all-male world of sexist seventies rock and
blazing a trail for female rockers of the future, or merely the exploited teenage puppets of a
manipulative manager?
CASIOTONE FOR THE
PAINFULLY ALONE Thur 4th/ 8pm/ £8 advance/ £10 on the door The Cube welcomes back Owen Ashworth on his
last ever tour as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Likening himself to Hank Williams with a decent
Casio collection, Ashworth brings us a fuzzy,
bleeping hybrid of folk & electronica,
heart-warming and heartbreaking at the same time.
Suitably uncluttered beats, melancholy drones and
bittersweet melodies support baritone-laden vocals,
narrating us through “wonderful fragments of
fiction about half-missed opportunities and
forgotten moments of happiness, the friends you had and lost, the sweet sorrow of getting older and getting on with life”. With support from
Americana-inspired archaeo-futuristic one-man-band Robert Stillman, and Bristol’s very own lo-fi
popsters, I Know I Have No Collar.
BRISTOL JAM PACKED BONANZA
FT. REGGIE WATTS,
JACKAL FILMS,
MALCOLM
HARDEE’S
TUNNEL &
MORE Fri 5th/
7.30pm doors/ £10
A full evening of live fun and films from acts of global
stature as part of Bristol Old Vic’s Improvisation festival. The Cube is proud to play host to international sensation,
the amazing Reggie Watts. Reggie’s improvised sets are
created on-the-spot using only his voice and a looping
machine. No two songs or performances are ever the
same. “Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal
range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a
comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I’ve seen him
a few times since then and I still can’t decide. Whatever,
he ain’t like nobody else.” – Brian Eno Plus, two improvised short films presented by Jacqueline Wright &
T.V.’s Alice Lowe (Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace / Mighty
Boosh). Kicked off with Director Jody Vandenburg presenting
‘The Tunnel’, a half hour film about Malcolm Hardee’s
seminal Tunnel Club, featuring Harry Enfield, Rich
Hall, John Hegley, Lennie Henry, Jools Holland, Phil
Kay, Mark Lamarr, Norman Lovett, Paul Merton, Simon
Munnery, Mike Myers and Vic Reeves. Prepare for further surprise improvised live shenanigans
too…
ALAMAR Sun 7th and Tues 9th 8pm/ Mon 8th 9pm/ Wed 10th
11am (babycinema)/ £4/£3/£2 (babycinema/tts) Pedro González-Rubio/ Mexico/ 73 mins/
Cert: U/ subtitled Jorge takes his young son Natan to the coral reefs in
Mexico, where his Mayan roots lie, to visit his
grandfather. The relationship between grandfather,
father and son, and the Mexican fishermen and their
environment is quietly captured almost as a
documentary with absorbing and intimate
observation.
HOBO POP PRESENTS THE KIRSTEN
MCGEE DUO Weds 10th/ 8pm/ £5 advance/£7 on the door Hobopop Recordings & The Cube Cinema present an
evening of fine, literate and off-beat activities for the
children of the New Depression Era. Twice nominated for BBC Folk Awards, Kirsty McGee
has been recording and touring to critical acclaim
since her debut in 2002. Her style continues to defy
categorisation and charm audiences across Europe,
earning her the tag of ‘cult’ singer-songwriter in the
UK. She is on tour promoting her new single ‘Wife’,
released for free download in November 2010. Her last
album ‘No.5’ was described as ‘exquisite’ by
Q magazine in the spring of this year. Molly Samson is a gifted guitarist and vocalist based in
Bristol. She has been making a name for herself with
her deep rich vocals, wild finger picking and unique
blend of world folk music. She is currently writing
songs for her first EP, to be released in spring 2011. This will be an evening of live music, original visuals
and aftershow surprises.
THE HOT AIR BABOONS
IMPROV COMEDY SPECTACLE Thur 11th/ 8pm/ £5/£4 The Hot Air Baboons are an exciting
collective of stage, film, radio and TV
comedy performers who have turned
their attention to creating a night of
improvised entertainment in their home
town. The group’s sessions at the Cube
provide a rare chance to see comic ideas
emerge, blossom, be discarded or (with audience
endorsement), be put in a box marked ‘keepers’.
Expect the unexpected.
SADDAR BAZAR
Fri 12th/ 8pm til late/ £5/£4
The Cube in association with
The Heavy Heads Disco proudly
presents an evening of
unadulterated psychedelic
instrumental freak out,
featuring a rare live
performance from Saddar
Bazaar. With a delta undertow
and a heavy lavish layering of
sitar, they make blissed out
east/west psychedelic blues/rock
fusion. Tripped out effervescent raga
scales mixwith fuzzing acid rockin’ chords.
Big Naturals are an experimental psych rock duo who
follow in the footsteps of many 1970s intense heavy
rhythm sections creating dynamic pounding krautrock
soundscapes.
With psychedelic light show and The Heavy
Heads DJs in the bar playing a fine selection
of Heavy Blues and Psych Rock.
BORSTAL DOUBLE BILL: DOG POUND AND THE LONELINESS OF
THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER Sat 13th/ 8pm/ £5 Dog Pound: Kim Chapiron/2010/
USA/ 90 mins/ Cert: 18 The Loneliness of the Long Distance
Runner: Tony Richardson/ 1962/ UK/ 91 mins/ Cert: 12 Double trouble as the Cube plays host to borstal mania, getting locked up and locked in with Kim Chapiron’s Dog Pound and Tony Richardson’s 1962 classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. A loose remake of Alan Clarke’s Scum, transposed
to a contemporary US setting, Dog Pound offers a raw and visceral portrayal of prison power play comparable to Audiard’s A Prophet. Shackled to the anti-authoritarian new wave poetic realism of
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Richardson’s depiction of a working class rebel who stops short of the finish line, this promises to be anything but a cosy night in.
THE SECRET OF
KELLS Sat 13th and Sun 14th/
11am and 2pm/ £3/£4 Tomm Moore & Nora
Twomey/ 2009/ Ireland/
75 mins/ Cert: PG This stunning animation is a spirited retelling of
Ireland’s most cherished artefact, the Book of Kells.
With the Viking hordes approaching, the monks
of Kells are forced to turn their attention from
transcribing manuscripts to building barricades.
The future of the precious book is in jeopardy and
it falls to Brendan, young nephew of the abbot
Cellach, to save the day. To help complete the
magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest
fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the
enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. He
meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolfgirl, who helps him along the way. A bewitching animated fairytale for children and
adults alike.
CUBE FILM QUIZ Sun 14th/ 8pm/ £2 Winter is now drawing near, and the film quiz is
back, new and improved for the season. Several
more rounds of film clips, questions and
suggestions. Head scratchers and easy peasies alike.
Come and test your mettle on the films that make
this place tick. You know it makes
sense.
There will be merriment.
Come and join.
ALASDAIR ROBERTS AND CATH
AND PHIL TYLER Wed 17th November/ 7.30pm/ £7 To listen to Ali Roberts sing his first song of a
set is akin to reading the opening page of an
engrossing epic - you know there will be
monsters, romance, and death ahead, all
brought alive by a master weaver of myth,
melodies and moralities. Roberts’ repertoire is made up of his
own compositions and jewels from the
treasure trove of timeless Scottish folk
songs he regularly plunders,
delivering songs with his own deftly
intricate guitar playing and a voice
both bold and subject to fragility.
He has shared stages with Joanna
Newsom, Magnolia Electric Co,
Smog and countless others.
He keeps good company for
sure. A Qu Junktions
Presentation.
BABYCINEMA FILM SURPRISE Wed 17th/ 11 am/ £2/ babies free The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young
babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents
and their offspring. Babycinema Film Surprise is a lucky dip of film titles, where our
visitors can choose from classic titles from the Cube archives.
ENCOUNTERS 2010 Encounters International Film Festival returns this November (16 – 21)
with the re-launch of Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters, and
a celebration of the best short and animated film talent from around
the world. This year also sees the return of a flourishing relationship
with the Cube Cinema, who bring you a selection of eclectic events and
activities during the festival. For the full programme and to join the newsletter visit
www.encounters-festival.org.uk ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: PRESENTING CAPTAIN ZIP Thur 18th/ 8pm/ £5 Captain Zip filmed the punk street scene in London from 1978 to
1981, completing nine short films, most of them shot on a clockwork
Standard 8mm camera, with one lip-sync. Punk chat film on Super 8.
These vibrant time capsules of one of the most colourful explosions of
expression the streets of England have witnessed were largely edited
in-camera and have become an important social history resource
enabling an inspiring form of time travel to a less politically censored age. This will be a rare projection of all nine films in their original formats complete with swastikas, water pistol battle (on film), police intervention (on film), and original cement splices that could break at any time. The screening will be attended by Captain Zip. The seven silent punk films will be accompanied by punk tracks from a DJ.
ENCOUNTERS
AT THE CUBE:
MAN EATER MOUNTAIN Fri 19th/ 8pm/ £5 Striving to deliver the freshest approaches to Japanese film over the
past decade, Zipangu Fest (http://zipangufest.com/) heralds the
introduction of works, both new and old, previously unseen by a
mainstream British film audience, showcasing the many identities of
ENCOUNTERS AT Japan as depicted by some of the country’s most exciting and revered talents. Tonight, as part of this year’s Encounters short film festival, we present a special Ero
Guro
THE CUBE:
Anime Night (total 112 mins), introduced by Jasper Sharp of Midnight Eye. A selection
BEAKONS IKONS of nightmarishly morbid animations from the Japanese underground including
AND DYKONS Metempsychosis (1993), Man-Eater Mountain (2008), The Death Lullaby (1985) &
Sat 20th/ 8pm/ £5/£4
Midori: The Girl in the Freak Show (1992). In addition we’re pleased to welcome Takuro
concession for outrageous
Kochi, the sound designer for Man-Eater Mountain, to introduce the film. appropriate dress For further details on the full programme please check the website. Beacons, Icons and Dykons, party celebration in
collaboration with Encounters A homage to a larger than life Gay Icon, Dolly Parton with specially
commissioned performances inspired by Dolly’s life, her songs and films. Performances will be hosted by Bristol LATE NIGHT JAPANESE PINKU DOUBLE BILL based performer Tom Marshman. Fri 19th/ 11pm doors/ £2 Followed by film, shorts Intro by Jasper Sharp and late night Dolly DJs
country style in the bar. Sexy Time Trip Ninjas (1984) and Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl
Bring your gold cowboy (1984): Two deliriously tasteless comic romps from the Japanese pinku eiga boots...
softcore skin flicks genre directed by Yojiro Takita, winner of the 2008 Best
Foreign Film Academy Award for the drama DEPARTURES. Screening courtesy of Pink Eiga.
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: HAITI KIDS KINO
PROJECT AND NANOPLEX PRESENTS ALL AGES
SILHOUETTE ANIMATION WORKSHOP AND LOTTE
REINIGER’S THE FAIRY TALE FILMS Sun 21st/ 2pm-5pm/ £2 Join Haiti Kids Kino Project and our team of Nanoplex animators
at the Cube and learn how to create hand- cut silhouettes and
animate them under the camera! The workshop will be followed
by a selection of The Fairy Tale Films by animation pioneer
Lotte Reiniger. With wonderful music tracks and charming
narrations, these enchanting films will appeal to children
and adults alike. HKKP is a big project for a small microplex and we’d
love your support. If you’d like to contribute please
get in touch [email protected]
BLUESCREEN Wed 24th/ 8pm/ £3/£2 filmmakers in
for free, but only one per film It’s the last Bluescreen of the year, so
make sure you come down tonight for
your last fix of short film screenings
for 2010! Not been to Bluescreen before? All
you need to do is BRING your films
down on the night on DVDs, Mini
DVs etc, films should be 20 mins or
under. We welcome all film genres,
be they Dramas, Docs, Animations,
Music Promos, Experimental, Skate
vids... you get the idea. And the best
part is you get to see YOUR films on
the Cube’s Big Blue Screen. Films on
the cinema screen, as it should be! Not got a film? Come along anyway
and get inspired! Plus the Cube Orchestra and their
rescores and Bluescreen Hi-Fi DJs in
the bar all night.
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Sun 21st and Tues 23rd 8pm/ Mon 22nd 9pm/
Wed 24th 11am (babycinema)/ £4/£3/£2 (tts/babycinema) Juan Jose Campanella/ 2010/ Argentina & Spain/ 129mins/
Cert: 18/ subtitled A quarter of a century of Argentina’s dirty war is the time frame for this Oscar-winning psychological thriller. When an ex-cop decides to write
a novel about one of his unresolved homicide cases, he reopens painful
memories and also rekindles his love for his former superior. Along the
way, a close relationship forms between the investigator and the grieving
widower of the victim. But both men must pay a price for their obsession
with justice and retribution.
GREATNESS OF THE
MAGNIFICENCE Fri 26th/ 8pm/ £5 advance, £7 on the door The Greatness of the Magnificence is back again this month presenting
the music of Ennio Morricone. Some of Bristol’s finest
musicians will be presenting their versions of some of
Morricone’s best and least known themes and songs. As
usual the general public and their friends are invited to
participate in this event. All enquiries to [email protected]
NANOPLEX FILMMAKING CLUB Sun 28th/ 11am- 1pm/ all ages workshop/ absolutely free Come and join Nanoplex and Haiti Kids Kino Project make
films that we can show to children with our mobile cinema in
Haiti. Parents can come and enjoy Sunday papers, homemade
cakes and coffee and relax in the cinema whilst the offspring
make films about hungry caterpillars and Gruffalos.
AUSFORM PLATFORM AND THE COST OF
LIVING BY DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE Sat 27th/ 8pm doors/ £5/£4 Following our 1st birthday, Ausform returns with
more quirkiness on stage and a bonus screening
of the feature length film ‘The Cost of Living’ by
internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre. David and Eddie are street performers
I’M STILL HERE struggling to get by in a seaside town.
Sun 28th and Tues 30th 8pm/ Mon 29th 9pm/
They work, argue, fail at romance and
£4/£3/£2 (tts) fall out with old friends. Part dance
Casey Affleck/ 2010/ USA/ 108 mins/ Cert: 15 In 2008 Joaquin Phoenix announced that he’d
decided to retire from acting and concentrate
on a new career as a rap singer. A subsequent
appearance on the Letterman show in which
he mumbled through an unruly beard lead to
film, part drama. The stories are told
speculation that he’d had a meltdown. Casey
through a combination of stylised
Affleck’s documentary follows Phoenix for a
movement and dialogue. year and we see him abuse drugs, his paid as sistants and his audiences. It looks like a fly on
DV8 have made work for the stage
the wall portrait but Affleck has hinted that the
since 1986. The Cost of Living is
whole thing may be a hoax. But is he doublechoreographed and directed by
bluffing? You decide. Lloyd Newson.
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AFGHANISTAN
THE RUNAWAYS
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS THE RUNAWAYS
THE RUNAWAYS
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
BRISTOL JAM PACKED BONANZA FT. REGGIE WATTS, JACKAL FILMS,
MALCOLM HARDEE’S TUNNEL & MORE
CLOSED
ALAMAR
ALAMAR
ALAMAR
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS ALAMAR
HOBO POP PRESENTS THE KIRSTEN MCGEE DUO
THE HOT AIR BABOONS IMPROV COMEDY SPECTACLE
SADDAR BAZAR
THE SECRET OF KELLS
THE SECRET OF KELLS
BORSTAL DOUBLE BILL: DOG POUND AND THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG
DISTANCE RUNNER
THE SECRET OF KELLS
THE SECRET OF KELLS
CUBE FILM QUIZ
CLOSED
MOUNTAIN FILMS - UNCONFIRMED
BABYCINEMA FILM SURPRISE
ALASDAIR ROBERTS AND CATH AND PHIL TYLER
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: PRESENTING CAPTAIN ZIP
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: MAN EATER MOUNTAIN
LATE NIGHT JAPANESE PINKU DOUBLE BILL
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: BEAKONS IKONS AND DYKONS
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE: HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT AND
NANOPLEX PRESENTS ALL AGES SILHOUETTE ANIMATION WORKSHOP AND
LOTTE REINIGERS’ THE FAIRY TALE FILMS
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
BLUESCREEN
CLOSED
GREATNESS OF THE MAGNIFICENCE
AUSFORM PLATFORM AND THE COST OF
LIVING BY DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE
NANOPLEX FILMMAKING CLUB
I’M STILL HERE
I’M STILL HERE
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